The San Diego Gay Men's Chorus is holding auditions

The award-winning choir is looking for new talent and they want to hear your voice.

The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus is looking to add new voices to their award-winning group, and would like to hear you sing.

SDGMC is holding auditions on Saturday January 7, Sunday January 8 and Monday, January 9.

If you think you have what it takes to join this group, there are a few things you should know before auditioning according to the website. Keep in mind the SDGMC uses a point system for choosing talent:

To be successful in your SDGMC audition, you should have some prior music experience either singing in a school, community or church chorus, or playing a musical instrument.

Most members of SDGMC possess at least basic music sight-reading skills. Your five-minute audition with members of the artistic staff will consist of the following:

• 16-32 measures of a prepared solo that you enjoy singing. You must either bring sheet music for our accompanist, or an iPod-compatible player with an accompaniment track.

We will provide a dock with speakers. Sorry, but no unaccompanied auditions are permitted. Part of your audition is determining how well you sing in tune to an accompaniment (15 points max).

• A check of your vocal range, from high notes to low notes, to determine your vocal placement

• A check to see how accurately you can sing a note played for you on the piano (10 points max).

• A check to see how accurately you can sing back a short combination of notes and rhythms played on the piano (10 points max).

• A short six-question “match the music symbol to its name” quiz to check your knowledge of basic music notation symbols (6 points max).